Dear Ugly Future
Current artistic practice of Volkan Aslan is impacted both by his memories and also by his impressions about the shaping of our time perception. Some remembered and some forgotten, these memories draw him toward certain objects he meets in the daily life, reminding him of his past. He playfully manipulates these objects in order to create surreal structures combining his personal associations with new and unexpected interpretations. The series named “Dear Ugly Future” made of amorph neon lights placed on cast plaster sculptures emphasizes the ever-changing approach to ideal beauty by using the reproduction theme. The series consists of 18 sculptures and it mostly addresses the commonness of arts after it was transformed in the process of remaking those sculptures belonging to Antique Greek period. This transformation also contains an uncertainty about the future aesthetic judgment that might develop from the interventions made by the artist to the busts of certain characters like Sappho, Hermes and Apollo and brings forth a potential for replications in connection with the arts history not yet written.
21.07.2023 - 21.08.2023